LE

Anyone here from 1 DERR 1980s/90s remember 'Donkey' Finnegan? He was excused issue PT shorts for very good reason.

"..there has seldom if ever been a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots."

Old-Salt

I went through all this when i did my 1C, ended up wearing dark blue shorts bought from decathalon plus green tee shirt (also from decathalon) The PTI did query why so many of us had non issued kit but we just said that we'd not been issued any. It wasn't a problem. Just do you best ie don't wear footie shirts!